Oxford MAT 2013/2014

There's a limit to how much information I think it's appropriate to give. However, the mean (across all candidates taking the MAT in its different variants) was just under 45, with a standard deviation of a bit over 14. We look at more than just the raw MAT score in deciding short-listing, but the default threshold also corresponds to a mark of about 45. Clearly, it was a slightly harder test this year.

Yea im taking a gap year . I was doing maths in DU but i really didnt like it so i dropped out :P
what board are you doing btw ?

Hey does anyone know if we can find out our MAT scores? Does Oxford release the scores at any point?

Hey does anyone know if we can find out our MAT scores? Does Oxford release the scores at any point?

Hey does anyone know if we can find out our MAT scores? Does Oxford release the scores at any point?

There's a limit to how much information I think it's appropriate to give. However, the mean (across all candidates taking the MAT in its different variants) was just under 45, with a standard deviation of a bit over 14. We look at more than just the raw MAT score in deciding short-listing, but the default threshold also corresponds to a mark of about 45. Clearly, it was a slightly harder test this year.

There's a limit to how much information I think it's appropriate to give. However, the mean (across all candidates taking the MAT in its different variants) was just under 45, with a standard deviation of a bit over 14. We look at more than just the raw MAT score in deciding short-listing, but the default threshold also corresponds to a mark of about 45. Clearly, it was a slightly harder test this year.

I'm assuming this is for the computer science questions? Do you know the average score on questions 1-5?

I'm assuming this is for the computer science questions? Do you know the average score on questions 1-5?

'MAT in all the different variants', I think, implies the mean of everyone (M and CS) who sat it.

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"...(across all candidates taking the MAT in its different variants)..."

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Pretty much all the MAT marking was completed late on Sat eve. (A small handful of scripts are still in transit.) A rough "line in the sand" has been drawn and was circulated to tutors yesterday. (This line takes into account MAT score, GCSE scores contextualised to a school's performance.) The tutors can now see the candidate's application (including reference, etc) and the breakdown of the MAT scores. The tutors are now focussing on candidates at the borderline and deciding on who out out of these middleground people to interview. Decisions on this should be finalised by Wednesday of next week. The colleges send out the invitations to interview/rejections. They will all have their own way of doing this. There's not fixed order. So it's quite possible that two candidates who applied to different colleges but for the same course will hear several days apart. Does that help?

Hi, would the MAT requirement for applicants who have already started university study elsewhere be completely different?

I had 4 midterms and a programming contest right before the MAT. Thus I was so exhausted during the test, and didn't do well. I think my score would only be around 80 or so.

Thank you!

If the mean is 45 and standard deviation is 14. Marks is a typical Normal distribution，so 68% of the applicants get from 31 to 59. 60 will be really good.

This year was really low-scoring, eh? I wonder if even one person managed a perfect score...

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I don't think they do. I'm not sure though!

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EDIT: Realized that this had already been answered. Never mind.



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Pretty much all the MAT marking was completed late on Sat eve. (A small handful of scripts are still in transit.) A rough "line in the sand" has been drawn and was circulated to tutors yesterday. (This line takes into account MAT score, GCSE scores contextualised to a school's performance.) The tutors can now see the candidate's application (including reference, etc) and the breakdown of the MAT scores. The tutors are now focussing on candidates at the borderline and deciding on who out out of these middleground people to interview. Decisions on this should be finalised by Wednesday of next week. The colleges send out the invitations to interview/rejections. They will all have their own way of doing this. There's not fixed order. So it's quite possible that two candidates who applied to different colleges but for the same course will hear several days apart. Does that help?

This year was really low-scoring, eh? I wonder if even one person managed a perfect score...

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